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There Can Be No ‘Soft Peace’

pe CARLYLE KING, CCF ideological lead-

er, pacifist, Munich supporier and opponent
of collective security during pre-war days finds
good company in the exiled German social demo-
ctats of New York, who echo his negotiated
peace propaganda.

These elements have expressed through their
New York paper, Neue Volk-Zeitung, support
for Bullitt’s proposal for a negotiated peace and
a crusade against the Soviet Union in preparation
for a third world war. This is the inevitable
path of all those pro-fascists and social demo-
crats who are expressing fear for the postwar
future of Germany.

There is concern respecting the intentions of
the three great partners of Teheran.

The Atlantic Charter prescribes an ultimate
equal right on earth to all people defeated as well
as victors. And it is apparently the view of
alarmists that peace will be best secured by turn-
ing over to Germany ‘such rights immediately
the last shot is fired.

This view most tragically mistakes the real
character of Germany as it exists today. _

The younger generation of Germany has been
perverted. It is dificult for us to imagine what
has happened. The mentality of the creatures
responsible for the acts committed in Russia, the
terror revealed at Lublin, is outside the range
of our experience.

Ilya Ebrénburg, outstanding Soviet writer,
says, The most striking thing about the crimes
of the Germans is their premeditated character
and the vast scale on which they have been com-
mitted. Ihe initiative belongs not to individual
bandits, monsters or sadists who might be found
in any society, but to the High Command of the
German Army.”

The world must be protected against the re-

currence of such things.

The policies of the United Nations must be

guided by this record. ‘ Fhere must be definite

and concrete guarantees against further aggression.
mechanical application of the Atlantic
Charter would become a weapon in the hands
of German Imperialism. The application of the
Atlantic Charter to a defeated Germany must
be subordinated to the principle of guaranteeing
security and free democratic development to the
peoples of the world.

The first step for Germany must be its occu-
pation by the United Nations and the extermin-
ation of Nazism. The slogan of ‘unconditional
surrender is necessary for this aim. This slogan
represents the aim of the United Nations, to

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MYER SHARZER

military victory
appeasement, no compromise

to fight on until a decisive

is achieved: no
peace.

Certainly there will be every necessity for
military occupation and control of Germany in
the postwar. All the evidence goes to show the
probability of the Allies being faced, on Hitler’s
fall, with a morally disintegrated community,
filled with fantastic anti-social elements and con-
taining the rudiments of a mass reyenge inspired
by a Nazi guerilla movement.

Plans are already coming to light for disper-
sal of Nazis into hiding in order that they may
continue their activity. :

War criminals must be punished. To restore,
as a clear object lesson, individual responsibility,
to restore punishment as the logical result of
crime, is the only way to discredit Fascist teach-
ings and restore respect for moral and legal law.

Reparations for devastated areas of occupied
countries are absolutely necessary.

Never in history has there been such whole-
sale destruction of life and property as the wan-
ton, deliberate destruction and plundering of the
Nazi armies. Destruction of whole villages to-
gether with their populations, the branding. of
war prisoners cannot be regarded as the excesses
of a handful of people. It is a crime of which
millions are guilty.

The question of the role of the German
people in their own future cannot be decided now.
Such a regeneration is not only a question of
propaganda and re-education. It will depend on
themselves. If the German people are sincere in
wishing to ayoid becoming involved in further
aggression they will welcome the steps of the

‘United Nations. They will take the first oppor-

tunity to actively participate in the extermina-
tion of the Nazis. So far the limited news from
Germany carries only news of uprisings of the
foreign slaye-held labor.

So far the only evidence we have, forms the
basis for an indictment of moral and criminal
responsibility against the whole German people
and a verdict of guilt, which will prevent the
reestablishment of a completely independent
German state for years to come.

The evils of Fascism cannot be exterminated
by .words alone. Deeds will be necessary. ‘They
may well prove stern and harsh. The peoples of
the world have been prepared for this in the past
few years. They will not shrink from the task,
nor yet will they allow themselves to be misled
by the false propaganda of those social-demo-
cratic and. pro-fascist elements who still retain
their hatred of the Soviet Union and see in a
negotiated peace a way in which Nazism may
be saved for a future adventure against. the
USSR in a third world war.

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By Garry

PEAKING at Penticton on September 26,

high in political ineptitude when he sz
Province, “We do not glorify Stalin and Tet
“we was intended to mean the CCF Party.

One questions‘his right to in-
elude the entire C@F in a state-
ment of such political cupidity.

One is reminded by this state-_

ment of another individual
who thought Stalin and Tehe-
ran were a lot of bunk. This
individual tried to tear down
the whole fabrie of civilization
by building up a hatred of
Stalin and telling the world a
thing like Teheran could never
happen. His name was Adolf
Hitler. However, grim experi-
ence has taught him, at least,
although it seems to have over-
looked . MacInnis, that the
“Teheran bunk” has produced
the: annihilation of his ‘armies
and the destruction of his
dream of world domination.

The people who have turned
to the CCF as an instrument
for the expression of their de-
sire for progress and reform,
have no desire to walk the
plank of social democracy to be
fed to the sharks of Fascism.
They will repudiate this surly
sneering just as surely. and
just as strongly as IL.

Sometimes I wonder about
people like Angus Macinnis. I
am told that Angus used to
operate a street car for the
B.C. Electric. I wonder did he
sneer at the men who paved
the streets and laid the tracks
and strung the trolley wires?
Or did he realize that his very
existence as a street-car oper-
ator depended upon the effec-
tiveness of their work. Was he
aware that he was powerless
to run the car anywhere with-
out the wires overhead to bring.
power to its motors, without
the tracks underneath to guide
its wheels? Or did he labor un-
der the delusion that all he had
to do was step inte the car,
pull the handle, ding-ding the
and take his passengers
wherever fancy led.

I wonder thus because Mac-
Innis seems to me to approach
the job of operating the Cana-
dian car of state in the latter
fashion. With supreme con-
tempt for the road makers,
the briage builders, the path
blazers of history, we are to
step aboard the bandwagon
and ding-dong, were off —
At least, that is the
way it appears to me. Maybe
I’m wrong. Maybe there is a
political magic carpet after
all.

Mankind is moving forward,
not backwards alone the old
familiar paths of depression
and gloom, unemployment and
poverty. The people will never
again take the old broken down
line that leads through the
slums of economic chaos and
international anarchy, to a new
and worse Munich and another
world war. : eet

The people are moving for-

ward, upward along a new
road with their eyes on new
horizons. The people knew™

where they wanted to go. They
knew where they wanted to
establish the new political
frontier. But, somebody had to
go up ahead. Somebody had to
map the new terrain, survey
the roadbed, mark its outlines

and make sure it stretched
clear and straight to a new —
future. That is the job that

was done at the Atlantic Con-
ference, and they called the
plans, the Atlantie Charter.
Somebody had to clear the
obstacles, uproot the stumps,
lay the roadbed and pave it.
That was the job done at the
Moscow . Conference. Somebody

had to design and
and lay the tr
the job. they did

Somebody had
trolley wires ove
the power that y
motors run. Tha
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